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SKYLIGHTS, during the 18th century fitted over the
poop deck with sma-11 fixed panes on top, sides and ends, Fig. 46A. The
19th century developed them with sloped tops, larger panes in hinge'up
frames and iron or brass protection bars, Fig. 46B. Elaborate types on
clipper and early steamships combined them with deck seats or
companionways or fitted panes in sides and ends also.
Make the base block from wood. Frames can be built up
either from hard cardboard or wood veneer. Lay main members first with
transparent plastic sheet underneath and smaller frame on top. Or put
plastic sheet neatly under smaller frame if any. Make the bars out of
U-shaped bent wire. Bend over a band former of wood or metal for
uniformity and press into holes drilled in the frames. Polished copper,
varnished, looks businesslike.
STERN DAVITS to carry a boat are of wood pinned and glued.
Brigs, schooners, sloops, etc. fitted them on top of the side rail
capping Fig. 47A. Large ships fitted them to the outside of the bulwark
and carried them thru the transom piece. They also had quarter boats
(accident boats) from davits abreast the mizzen rigging. Fig. 47B.
Going into battle the usual practice of both contestants,
to avoid flying splinters, was to set adrift all the davit hung boats
(others too, very often) for all and sundry to use— a gentlemanly
affair.
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HAMMOCK NETTINGS. A distinctive feature on warships and Indiamen is
worthy of some comments. The nettings were arranged abreast'the
gangways and on the poop and forecastle bulwarks and gunwales stretched
over iron frames. Fig. 48A The gangway nettings were deeper than the
others. Full of hammocks, they provided a good screen when in battle
and the hammocks could also be hastily rammed into large shot holes. A
wooden rail was fitted to the inside of gangway nettings. The iron
frames were portable which accounts for their absence on many
contemporary plans and models. Toward the end of the 19th century the
nettings were covered on the outside with canvas screens, stiffened and
painted so that they look almost solid like boards. In fact by the
early 19th century they did become thin boarding which was permanent,
Fig. 48B.
Hammocks in the deeper nettings could be stowed full
length at an angle or sometimes horizontally above one another. The
shallower nettings would stow them doubled up or singly horizontally.
The boarded up type was still referred to as nettings.
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Model
scale
Ship lines
The hull, woodworking
Holes in the hull
Gun ports
Decks, laying of
Rails and channels
Wales
Stern and galleries
Head and its rails
Figurehead
Rudder
Steering gear
Deck furniture
Windlass
Capstan
Hatches
Skylights
Hammock nettings
Painting the model, colors
Waterline
Rigging:
 The spars
Tops,
crosstrees, cheeks
Mast,
boom, gaff, yards
Lower
and upper yards,
halliards
The
double topsail
Lifts,
footropes, sheets, braces, clew garnets
Yard
bands
Making the spars
Ironwork
Bowsprit, dolphin striker,
the doublings
Top, construction
Shrouds, deadeyes, lanyards
Books & Tools,
recommendations
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